1940's Bridgend

 Event Date: June 2019.  .In the summer of 2019 my local town held a festival and the theme was "1940's"The re-enactment day saw the town centre transported back to the 1940s, with shop and pub staff dressing up in clothes from the era and even taping up their windows as they would have done during wartime to prevent flying glass from bomb blasts.This has been done in the past and there...

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A view worth remembering

Visit Date: September 2019This day I visited a part of the South Wales coast that I have not been to for many years, Langland Bay in the Mumbles area of Swansea. It is a beautiful part of the country. I walked along the coastal path until I saw a breath-taking vision of the coast. I stopped for a little while here and rested at this headland on a public bench that had the dedication on the bench...

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Carreg Samson

 Date of visit August 2019Carreg Samson is another Dolmen in Wales.As with others of this type the structure would originally have been covered with earth.It is one of the most beautiful spots overlooking the sea, near the picturesque port of Abercastle.This is a typical example of this type of neolithic chambered tomb.The Capstone is 4.5 metres long, 1 metre thick, 2.7 metres wide and between...

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